{"id":31083,"date":"2015-12-12T19:11:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-12T08:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nofibs.com.au\/?p=31083"},"modified":"2019-04-16T13:31:17","modified_gmt":"2019-04-16T03:31:17","slug":"climate-red-lines-in-the-cop21-un-blue-zone-and-for-paris-reports-takvera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.nofibs.com.au\/climate-red-lines-in-the-cop21-un-blue-zone-and-for-paris-reports-takvera\/","title":{"rendered":"#Climate red lines in the #COP21 UN Blue Zone and for Paris reports @takvera"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nThursday was a long night with negotiators working on a draft text released at 9pm Thursday evening. Friday was set aside for bilateral discussions. A new text is due on Saturday morning. There is still much at stake in these negotiations, and we will not know the full final outcome until the gavel goes down sometime over the weekend. <\/p>\n

Greenpeace released a statement on Thursday night based on the 9pm draft text. Martin Kaiser, head of international climate politics at Greenpeace, said:<\/p>\n

\u201cThis thing isn\u2019t over until the conference closes, but what\u2019s on the table just isn\u2019t good enough. It\u2019s a very big problem that the emissions targets on the table will not keep us below 1.5 degrees of warming and this draft deal does absolutely nothing to change that. Right now we\u2019re witnessing a display of international impotence. This text should say that countries have to come back soon with better numbers but instead it kicks that can down the road, saying we\u2019ll sort it in ten or fifteen years. That\u2019s too late, they\u2019re closing the door on our best chance to dodge dangerous warming.”<\/p>\n

There has been a lot of discussion about use of goal terms like zero emissions, carbon neutrality, net zero carbon. This current draft uses the term ‘greenhouse gas emissions neutrality’. “Why can\u2019t this conference just say it like it is, that we need to quit oil, coal and gas by 2050 at the latest? And why is there only one mention of the word renewables, and only in relation to Africa, when renewables will clearly come to dominate this century?\u201d said Kaiser.<\/p>\n

The removal of explicit human rights in the operative text has raised serious concerns, although references to human rights are at the moment still retained in the preamble. This DOES make a big legal difference, I am told.<\/p>\n